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By Travis Cramer | November 11, 2008

Ottawa County Health Department officials forced Hope College, a liberal arts school in Michigan, to close its campus last Friday due to a contagious norovirus-like outbreak, the Grand Rapids Press reported.

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Speaker warns women against casual sex

By Ann Baum | November 11, 2008

Female students almost always pay a higher emotional and physical price for casual hook-ups than male students do because of women's hormonal and anatomical biology, according to Miriam Grossman, senior fellow at the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute and former staff psychiatrist at University of California, Los Angeles.

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Daily Debriefing

By Shaun Akhtar and Manisha Apte | November 10, 2008

A six-year study of Gates Millennium Scholarship Program applicants suggests that black students who major in "high-paying fields" tend to make less money immediately after graduating college than Asian-American and Hispanic-American students who major in the same fields, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Teach For America sees increased applications

By Greg Berger | November 10, 2008

If there is a silver lining in the recent Wall Street meltdown, it may be the opportunity for Dartmouth seniors to pursue postgraduate options they would not have otherwise considered, like Teach For America, according to Monica Wilson, associate director of employer relations.

Students celebrate President-elect Barack Obama's Tuesday victory in an Office of Pluralism and Leadership event Sunday in Collis Common Ground.
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Students celebrate Obama's victory

By Shaun Akhtar | November 10, 2008

Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Five days after hundreds of students staged a spontaneous celebration across campus following the victory of President-elect Barack Obama, approximately 70 members of the Dartmouth community gathered together for a second Obama celebration in Collis Common Ground on Sunday night.

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Panel assesses an Obama presidency

By Manisha Apte | November 10, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama will inherit an inauspicious slate of challenges, the likes of which have not confronted incoming presidents in decades, when he begins his term in January, an interdisciplinary panel of professors agreed.

Chairman of the Board of Trustees Ed Haldeman '70 solicits student input on the College presidential search and budget cuts at a forum on Friday.
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Committee meets with potential presidents

By Susan Matthews | November 10, 2008

JENNIFER ARGOTE/The Dartmouth Staff / The Dartmouth Staff The presidential search committee to find a successor for retiring College President James Wright has met with potential candidates and experts who specialize in higher education leadership searches, and is on target to begin interviewing candidates in January, Al Mulley '70, a member of the Board of Trustees and chairman of the committee, said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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Daily Debriefing

By Emma Fidel | November 7, 2008

The College Board's "Task Force on Admissions in the 21st Century" released a new report on Wednesday that addresses the challenges that admissions professionals will face in the coming years, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Thursday.

A panel discusses Nelson Rockefeller's legacy on Thursday.
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Panel lauds Rockefeller '30's legacy

By Susan Matthews | November 7, 2008

SEBASTIAN RAMIREZ-BRUNNER / The Dartmouth Staff Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller '30, an "improbable tree hugger," fought against political headwinds in his advocacy for new environmental policies as governor of New York, according to panelists at a event in the Rockefeller Center Thursday.

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Daily Debriefing

By Conrad Scoville and Elise Quinones | November 6, 2008

Kendra Field, the College's 2008-2009 Charles Eastman Fellow in Native American studies, presented her dissertation, "Intruder of Color: Race, Nation and Thomas Jefferson Brown's Life in Indian Territory," to about 25 attendees in Carson Hall Wednesday evening.

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Web Services creates new position

By Elise Quinones | November 6, 2008

The College's Web Services team is hiring a new web services manager to help the limited staff meet the demands of Dartmouth's increasing reliance on the internet, according to Sarah Horton, director of web strategy, design and infrastructure at the College. Despite the apparent expansion of technology on campus, Web Services is currently only a four-person team, according to Horton, the team's leader.

Members of the Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health talk to students in Thayer Dining Hall to raise awareness of global poverty.
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DCGH raises awareness, students live on $2 for day

By Marielle Battistoni | November 6, 2008

Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff The first-ever Two Dollar-a-Day Challenge, held at Dartmouth on Wednesday, tested students' ability to sustain themselves for one full day on $2 or less, in an effort to call attention to the more than one billion people living in extreme poverty worldwide. The challenge, sponsored by the Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health and the East Wheelock Service Corps, offered a $2 rice-and-beans dinner served in Food Court.

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